Automatic bale piler

Claim 1

AN AUTOMATIC BALE PILER COMPRISING CARRIER FRAME MEANS ADAPTED TO BE HITCHED TO A BALER, INCLUDING A BALE RECEIVING SPACE LOCATED CENTRALLY WITHIN THE FRAME MEANS FOR RECEIVING THERE WITHIN A ROW OF BALES CONSISTING OF A PREDETERMINED NUMBER OF BALES, TWO BALE COLLECTING SPACES LOCATED LATERALLY, ONE ON EACH SIDE OF SAID BALE RECEIVING SPACE AND IN LINE THEREWITH, GATE MEANS MOVABLY MOUNTED BY THE FRAME MEANS FOR LATERAL MOVEMENT ACROSS THE RECEIVING SPACE AND BETWEEN THE TWO COLLECTING SPACES, GATE ACTIVATING MEANS SECURED AT THE REAR OF THE RECEIVING SPACE AND RESPONSIVE, UPON CONTACT THEREWITH OF THE REARMOST BALE OF THE ROW, TO AUTOMATICALLY CAUSE LATERAL MOVEMENT OF THE GATE ACROSS THE RECEIVING SPACE THUS TRANSFERRING THE BALES FROM THE RECEIVING SPACE TO A COLLECTING SPACE, EACH SUBSEQUENT BALE INTRODUCED INTO THE RECEIVING SPACE PUSHING THE PRECEDING BALE REARWARDLY TOWARD THE GATE-ACTIVATING MEANS, SAID GATE BEING OPERATIVE SO AS TO ALTERNATELY FEED BALES INTO THE TWO COLLECTING SPACES, BALE EXPELLING MEANS COMPRISING TWO ENLARGED PANELS, EACH MOVABLY MOUNTED ON THE FRAME ADJACENT THE FORWARD EDGE OF ONE OF THE COLLECTING SPACES, SECOND ACTUATING MEANS FOR AUTOMATICALLY CAUSING REARWARD MOVEMENT OF SAID EXPELLING MEANS, SAID SECOND ACTIVATING MEANS SECURED AT THE FAR SIDE OF THE COLLECTING SPACE NORMALLY RECEIVING THE EVEN NUMBERED ROWS OF BALES, SUCH AS THE SECOND AND FOURTH ROW, SO AS TO INSURE AN EVEN LOADING OF THE COLLECTING SPACES BEFORE DISCHARGE OF THE BALES THEREFROM, EACH SUBSEQUENT ROW INTRODUCED INTO THE COLLECTING SPACES BY THE GATE MEANS PUSHING THE PRECEDING ROW BEFORE IT UNTIL THE MEANS FOR ACTIVATING THE EXPELLING MEANS IS CONTACTED AND THE EXPELLING MEANS ARE ACTIVATED SO AS TO MOVE REARWARDLY AND DISCHARGE THE ENCLOSED BALES.